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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:57:20 -0600
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On 2/20/2012 4:12 PM, JonY wrote:
> On 2/21/2012 05:39, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Am 20.02.2012 01:25, schrieb Christopher Faylor:
>>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 07:07:04PM -0500, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> /usr/include/stdio.h:34:20: fatal error: stddef.h: No such file or
>>>> directory
>>> stddef.h comes from the gcc4-core package.  It's located in:
>>>
>>> usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/include/stddef.h
>>>
>>> and should be found automatically by the compiler.
>> I think it's a weird setup that an include file referred from
>> /usr/include is not found in that location but well hidden in
>> installation-specific directories. Not the usual setup anyway. Also
>> uncomfortable for people who want to check include files manually.
>> Please consider to change this (gcc maintainer?).
>> Thomas
>>
> So how are you supposed to use headers provided by the compiler anyway
> without going into that compiler specific directory?
>
Why not put a stddef.h file into /user/include that includes comments 
showing
where to find the compiler-specific stddef.h files?  And if putting it 
there makes
the compiler try to use it instead of the compiler-specific one, also 
add the code
needed to tell the compiler to include the compiler-specific one, after 
checking
which compiler is currently in use.

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